Like Sirius above, I only play manual training mode. Rarely have more than eight horses on the go at once due to the amount of time and detail required.
This kind of training generally guides you toward a small but elite string of homebred pattern-race horses, with unsurprisingly, extensive use of the transfer pool to "reserve" surplus juvenile homebreds for future use.
I have bred and trained multiple grp 1 winners, and in over three centuries of breeding and training have made three horses reach a rating of 140. All three of them fillies, two of which were 12 furlong runners, and the other was a 10 furlong runner. Rarely race the flat horses beyond the age of 5, to achieve maximum years of use of them at stud.
In all these years of playing, the two hardest races to win have been the Dubai Duty Free (extended 9 furlongs), and the Melbourne Cup (2 miles). Never won the former, and won the latter only once.
In manual training mode, wednesdays are the crucial day for going red and getting your horses "fit and ready to race". I never run my horses unless they are absolutely spot-on (this puts more pressure on the condition column), which means they rarely run more than six times in any one year even with a maximum constitution bar.
In all this training time I haven't once found/bought at auction a potential top flight female sprinter with racing longevity. 
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